Latest Property News

• UK must avoid ‘housing apartheid’
  

  Published 12th Oct 2007

  Housing Minister, Yvette Cooper, has stated that Britain must never again return to the 'housing apartheid' that was the legacy of the previous Conservative Government..

• FTBs: ‘Can’t Buy - Can Rent’?
  

  Published 11th Oct 2007

  The BPF has backed a report published today by Hometrack promoting the private rented sector as having a serious role to play in alleviating the housing crisis..

• Spanish market ‘stabilising’
  

  Published 09th Oct 2007

  The latest independent data from Kyero.com, the largest English language Spanish property portal, reveals that average property prices in Spain increased by 1.4% in the last month; rising to €248,000 in October 2007..

• ‘Accidental landlords’ raking it in
  

  Published 04th Oct 2007

  This news may not come as a huge surprise to some, not least with so many people choosing to rent rather than buy precisely because of the soaring cost of buying a house in recent years

• Landlords taking action to protect their yields
  

  Published 03rd Oct 2007

  Amateur landlords are unlikely to bail out of the market if rental yields fall

• A Fifth of Landlords Would Sell-Up or Invest Abroad if Interest Rates Hit 6%
  

  Published 01st Oct 2007

  A new survey from property lettings specialists Ezylet, has today revealed that a fifth of landlords in Great Britain (20%) would seriously consider selling one or more of their property investments, or invest overseas (19%) if the British interest rate were to rise above 6%

• Stamp duty relief to underline need for zero-carbon houses
  

  Published 22nd Sep 2007

  What is a carbon-neutral home